Love is not to prove something to someone

Auntie Thanh is my wife’s youngest sister. As the youngest child, she was spoiled by her parents since she was a child, so her personality is very ladylike. She took acting classes at art school, and when she graduated, she opened a fashion store. Then she fell in love with a young rich man and got married right away. Both are too arrogant, no one is inferior to anyone, just want more, so they divorced after 5 years of living together.

Aunt Thanh is an arrogant woman (Artwork)

A few months later, she happily boasted of having a new boyfriend and said that her ex-husband thought it would be difficult for her to have a lover, he was wrong!

My wife and I invited my aunt to have a meal, but she refused: “Well, I’m going to have dinner with my boyfriend, by the way, I stopped by to introduce him to the whole family…. As he spoke, his aunt waved out: ” … Long, come in, my dear!”.

My wife and I were startled and stunned, because my aunt’s “brother Long” is a friend of my son, 24 years old, which is ten years younger than Aunt Thanh. In front of us, Long stammered: “Hello… aunt and uncle…”.

Regardless of my family’s astonishment, Aunt Thanh was still cheerful, in the right mood to be in love: “Long is younger than me, but very knowledgeable and mature, from now on we will take care of each other”.

My wife smiled wryly: “So happy! Congratulations!”. Then my wife turned to me: “Love is age-defying”.

Seeing my obvious displeasure, my wife continued, “I mean, when people are in love, age doesn’t matter!”.

“There is a problem! He’s… just like my son,” I said. Seeing that the situation seemed unhappy, Long interjected: “You can rest assured, I have a job, a good salary, I will take care of… for Thanh!”.

“Do you take care of her or vice versa?” I frowned.

“With you taking care of her, I can rest assured! She’s a bit old, but she’s very childish… you have to… give in to her!”, my wife tried to laugh.

Seeing clearly that she was not supported by her relatives, Aunt Thanh quickly took Long’s hand: “Let’s go eat.”

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That night my wife and I stayed up very late. I can’t understand, Aunt Thanh, a woman in her thirties falls in love with a teenage boy, what does she think?

My wife explained: “She is not the type to think much”.

“And what will happen to them later?”, I stammered.

“She also rarely thinks about the future. Romance is a private matter, I can’t judge,” my wife said again.

“I don’t judge, but she’s a sister, how can I be indifferent to watch her suffer forever! She missed it once!”, I sighed.

“I think, people meet because of predestined, but predestined… is hard to avoid”, my wife is still small.

I know, my wife tries to comfort herself with the word “destiny”, but in her heart she does not agree at all with her sister’s love story.

A week later, Aunt Thanh came back to my house. I was not at home that day. My wife told me that she came alone, said that she had broken up with Long, because she felt that you were not happy and for her, family came first. I don’t want my own affairs to affect my sibling’s feelings.

I thought my wife would be happy, but on the contrary, she was very sad: “I feel very bad. I see her very sad, I know it’s my fault and you too. I thought, if you can, talk to her!”

Listening to my wife, I made an appointment with Aunt Thanh for breakfast and coffee.

“I understand that it will be difficult for you to see that Long is your son’s friend and becomes my boyfriend again…”, Aunt Thanh opened.

I said, “Actually, that’s only a small part, the bigger part is because you care about me, whether I’ll be happy or miserable when I’m with a… boy ten years younger than me!” .

Auntie Thanh thought and sighed: “I don’t know! I used to love and believe that with that husband I would be happy for the rest of my life, that’s why… you see, after all!”.

“Happiness doesn’t come by accident, it takes effort! I think the last marriage has taught you many lessons. I must learn! No one achieves anything without learning. I thought again, if you love Mr. Long just because you see something in him that you desire and need to have, then it doesn’t matter. But if you come to Long just to prove to everyone, especially to your ex, how charming you are, without him I still have a beautiful young man running after you… happy”.

Aunt Thanh was silent for a moment, then said: “Actually… I also really like Long …”.

“We love so many people in our lives, but to choose a life partner, just liking is not enough! If you really love… Mr. Long, you and I have no objection. You can call him back,” I continued.

“So, you see me and Long… is it okay?”, Aunt Thanh asked.

“Honestly, I feel bad! But I just want you to be happy!” I said.

Auntie Thanh was silent for a while, then said: “I thank you for worrying about me, but breaking up with Long, I have considered it carefully, not because of you!”.

After that, Aunt Thanh continued to live alone and continued her business. Sometimes my aunt comes to my house to play, happy and peaceful. Because she no longer has to force herself to show something, prove something. She lives a light life and knows that true happiness is letting go of things that don’t belong to her.

According to phuuonline.com.vn